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These soft and chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies combine the best flavors in a soft, warm cookie. Bursting with peanut butter flavor and chocolate chips, each bite is the perfect combination!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
When baking cookie recipes, this recipe is one of my favorite cookies with chocolate chips! It’s so easy to whip up, and in just 8-10 minutes baking time, you have a chewy texture peanut butter cookie with a soft center, that also satisfies your chocolate cravings.
When making these decadent peanut butter chocolate cookies, using creamy peanut butter makes them so soft and smooth. Adding chocolate chips makes a perfect combination of peanut butter and chocolate.
This is one of those popular cookie recipes that has a yummy combination of chocolate mixed in with an amazing peanut butter flavor. These peanut butter cookies have very little prep time, are full of flavor, and will be a family favorite.
Ingredients for Homemade Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chips
- unsalted butter-room temperature butter works best
- granulated sugar
- dark brown sugar– (or light brown sugar)
- eggs
- creamy peanut butter– you can also use chunky, or natural peanut butter
- baking soda
- baking powder
- all-purpose flour
- chocolate chips-1- 12 ounce bag of chocolate chips
How to Make Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
STEP 1: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
STEP 2: In a medium mixing bowl, and on medium speed, use an electric mixer to cream butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar using paddle attachment.
STEP 3: Once the butter and sugars are creamed together, whisk in the eggs until they are fully incorporated into the dough.
STEP 4: Stir in the peanut butter mixture until it is smooth and runny.
STEP 5: Gently add in your dry ingredients of baking soda, baking powder, and flour, mixing on medium speed, until all ingredients are fully incorporated into the dough.
STEP 6: Stir in the chocolate chips until they are evenly distributed throughout the cookie dough.
STEP 7: Scoop peanut butter cookie dough and then roll dough into small balls of dough. Place dough balls onto lightly sprayed cookie sheet, or line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
STEP 8: Bake at 350 degrees F for 8- 10 minutes baking time, until golden brown and light in color. Allow the cookies to cool until center sets, for a few extra minutes, before removing them from the baking sheet. Transfer to cooking rack to allow them to finish cooling.
Tips:
- For evenly baked cookies, try to make equal sized cookie dough balls. I try to use a 1 1/2 -2 inch cookie scoop, or about 1 1/2 – 2 tablespoon of dough.
- This recipe makes about two dozen cookies
FAQ’S
You can add extra chocolate chips, or use dark chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, mini chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, or semi-sweet chocolate chips in this recipe. You can also add chopped peanut butter cups to these perfect cookies.
I like to use both creamy peanut butter and chunky peanut butter. Chunky peanut butter causes the cookies to become a little more crunchy, but smooth peanut butter helps keep the cookies chewy. It’s really your preference when making your batch of cookies.
Leftover cookies can be stored in an airtight container, in a zip lock bag, or wrapped in plastic wrap for up to 5 days. You can also store them in the freezer, for 2 months.
When baking nut cookies, like this classic peanut butter cookie recipe, I don’t like to add even a teaspoon salt because peanut butter already has a little bit of salt in it. For an extra bit of salt, you can use salted butter, or add a 1/2 teaspoon salt to the recipe.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Electric Mixer
- Cookie Sheet
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, or light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups chocolate chips, or chocolate chunks
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a medium mixing bowl, and on medium speed, use an electric mixer to cream butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar using the paddle attachment.
- Once the butter and sugars are creamed together, whisk in the eggs until they are fully incorporated into the dough.
- Stir in the peanut butter mixture until it is smooth and runny, then gently add in the baking soda, baking powder, and flour, mixing on medium speed, until all ingredients are fully incorporated into the dough.
- Stir in the chocolate chips until they are evenly distributed throughout the cookie dough.
- Scoop peanut butter cookie dough and then roll dough into small balls of dough. Place dough balls onto lightly sprayed cookie sheet, or line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 8- 10 minutes baking time, until golden brown and light in color. Allow the cookies to cool until center sets, for a few extra minutes, before removing them from the baking sheet. Transfer to cooking rack to allow them to finish cooling.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I am not a big peanut butter fan when it comes to cookies, but when I tasted these, sorry but I ate them all (no, not in one sitting, but over the course of a couple days). Delicious !!!!